World Natural Heritage: China Danxia (9)

Mount Langshan is a typical representation of a Danxia landform in the early mature stages of its geological evolution among China’s Danxia landform nominations that applied for World Natural Heritage. Mount Langshan is located in the junction between the southern China plate and the Yangtze plate, which is also the transition zone of Chinese II and III terrain ladders. It experienced a number of intermittent crustal uplifts. Mount Langshan is characterized by its intensive domed Danxia peaks which look like 10,000 shoots of bamboo shooting into the sky or 10,000 horses galloping forward. Its lane valleys, line valleys and natural bridges are grand in scale and its Danxia karst is unique.

The vegetation "ecological island effect" and the habitat narrow endemism are prominent, making Mount Langshan the representative of the most complete regional co-evolution of plants and animals among the Danxia plant succession series. Its Danxia landscape possesses rare natural beauty and original properties. It is the representative of a peak forest landform in its mature evolutionary stage and the model site of the major types and basic characteristics of Danxia landscapes among the nomination sites. It also meets the standards (VII), (VIII) and (IX) for selecting world natural heritage.